Resource files and GIF files

This is a discussion on Resource files and GIF files within the Windows Programming forums, part of the Platform Specific Boards category; Noticed when creating a resource file, only a bmp option is available... Problem with BMP is they always have a ...

Resource files and GIF files

Noticed when creating a resource file, only a bmp option is available... Problem with BMP is they always have a background (or enclosing rectangle)... With gifs you can have them with transparent Background.. Thing is i would like to animate an image with a specific shape (ball/aircraft, etc) on a client window... But now the BMP has this white block around it! How do i create a transparent background resource file?

Maybe am dumb, can't read anywhere the author talks about making the ball background transparent... Perhaps all he did was to have the background white, which wont show on a white window anyway.... Please indicate if i skipped some statements there... sometimes i read too fast missing important fine lines